Coetzee is a surname of Afrikaans origin, used mainly in South Africa and among Afrikaans-speaking communities. It denotes a family lineage and is most famously associated with the novelist J. M. Coetzee. The pronunciation is non-intuitive for English speakers and often comes with a voiced velar stop and a post-alveolar fricative sound sequence that can be challenging for non-native learners.
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